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Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Blog quote of the day
Posted by Jill | 10:37 AM

The more I read of what I call the "second tier of bloggers" (which means everyone outside of the Big Kahunas -- you know who they are), the more proud I am to be one of them.

Today I'm quoting from Norwegianity, whom I'm also adding to the blogroll. (Thanks to Middle Earth Journal for this particular find.)

This whole tsunami in a Sammon misquote is a little hard to take. By now I’m sure most who say Egeland called the US stingy honestly believe he said it, but damnit! Sammon and many of the initial sources either knew better and lied, or as journalists should have known better and therefore erred and should correct themselves.

This constant sky-is-falling/the-USA-is-being-disrespected stuff is demeaning and makes our nation look childish. Let’s at least fight over real stuff, and not this made-up foolishness.

And stop fucking with Norwegians. Egeland is a First Worlder who was talking to other First Worlders. He looked us all collectively and spoke his mind, peer to peer. I wish more bureaucrats would do that. This hissy fit from the wingnuts is tantamount to saying that this administration may not be criticized, not even indirectly or by inference. [thought, word or deed?]

Just how thin-skinned have we become? 150,000 people and counting are dead and undies are in a bunch over a possible slight? More manufactured outrage.

Which leads me to ask: just how angry is the right? Why all the constant anger? You have the presidency, you have both houses of Congress, and you own the judiciary everywhere except California. WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?

Can’t take winning?

Or is it that you don’t like waking up and realizing that what you’ve got isn’t what you voted for.

You could switch sides, you know. Enough pissed conservatives could team with real liberals to throw out the pro-corporate incumbents in the Democratic party and run a decent human being for president in 2008.

All you have to do is stop and take a hard look at just about everything. Does anything make sense to you? How is it you’ve been kicking liberal ass all over the place ever since Reagan, yet everything’s gone to hell in a handbasket?

Wake up to the fact that every lie Kerry told Democrats, Bush told ten of to you. He’s Clinton lite — telling you what you want to hear, then doing whatever while his friends empty the Treasury. He doesn’t care who gets on the court — if he did, he wouldn’t be pushing hacks like Gonzales. He could pass anti-abortion legislation if he wanted, but he doesn’t have the political will. Even after that cockup of an initial occupation, we could be holding down the fort in Iraq just fine but he spent the money wrong and overrode the generals, screwing everything up. He treats our troops and veterans like crap, saying one thing but always doing another, invariably cutting VA funds in the process.

If you trust this man, you’re just not paying attention.

The reason why you keep hearing what fuckers the liberals are is because they’re trying to distract you from their misdeeds. The time has come to set aside politics and look at the facts and figures. What good thing has come from Bush’s presidency?

You don’t have to agree with me about anything else, but if you’re honest, you’ll draw the same conclusion I have. George Bush is an empty suit. Not stupid, but not fully engaged. Blow in his ear and he’ll let you follow him anywhere. He has no work ethic except for gladhanding, and if all it takes to own your vote is a handshake or two, then you’re not working very hard at being an American.

Question authority.

That’s as much a conservative maxim as a liberal one.


Amen, brother.
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